5.
FDT HISTORY
• Started as an internal tool at Powerﬂasher in 2005 with ﬁrst public release in 2006
• Motivation: convert professional software developers over to Flash Platform
• FDT aimed at the coding comfort from the beginning, trying to match JDT:
• Live parser
• Live code completion
• Live error highlighting

9.
LAUNCHERS AND PROFILES
• Proﬁle holds your AIR app descriptor
• ANT can be completely avoided in most scenarios
• Deploy with a single click from the Proﬁle, Proﬁle has to
be bound to Launcher
• FDT 5 Launchers will have to be upgraded